Amazon Cuts Fire Phone Price Again
Amazon has dropped the price for its unlocked Fire smartphone by 69% just four months after the phone first went on sale. The company also just deleted thousands of negative online customer reviews of...
View ArticleSeagate Launching 8TB Magnetic Storage Drive
The trade-off is that SMR drives will end up somewhat slower than perpendicular drives, but then again they will be cheaper. In fact, the new 8TB drive is expected to end up about 10% cheaper than...
View ArticleAre We Moving Too Fast Into Cloud Computing?
Dell is not alone in promoting a hybrid approach to cloud adoption. Microsoft is adding hybrid cloud capability to the next version of Windows Server.
View ArticleAmazon Courting The Enterprise With New ‘WorkMail’ Service
Amazon.com Inc ramped up its attempts to woo corporate clients by announcing an email and scheduling service that will compete with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc . The service, dubbed WorkMail, will...
View ArticleCloud Analytics Growth Rate Seen Continuing For Years
It’s no secret that cloud computing and data analytics are both rapidly expanding areas within information technology. Put them together, and you get a winning combination that’s expected to grow by...
View ArticleRapidShare Is Closing It’s Doors
The company has fiercely denied allegations that it is a source of pirate booty, and defended a reputation that MarkMonitor was trying to dirty back in 2011.
View ArticleSeagate Forms Partnership With Micron
Lexar can now boast a 'stick' flash drive with a 256GB capacity, along with a new faster SSD drive for gamers, while Seagate has relaunched with a new 'living' logo and a range of products including a...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s Embracing Of Android Has Hidden Potential
BlackBerry Ltd’s move to embrace Android, although geared towards lifting revenue from its software and device management segment, could inadvertently give its device arm a new lease on life. “From the...
View ArticleAre Developers Rushing To The Cloud?
IBM announced SuperVessel last week to encourage open source cloud development on the Power platform, bolstering the existing and wildly successful Bluemix environment.
View ArticleSeagate Goes OneDrive
After a frantic morning of registering the Seagate drives in the office to no avail, we confirmed with Seagate that, in fact, the offer is back-dated only to drives manufactured after January 2015, so...
View ArticleIs BlackBerry Getting Closer To Building Android Devices?
BlackBerry Ltd , which has been tight-lipped about its plans to make a mainstream Android smartphone, fueled more speculation about its plans this week when it scooped up two Android-related domain...
View ArticleIBM Buys Compose Cloud Services Company
"By joining IBM, we will have an opportunity to accelerate the development of our database platform and offer even more services and support to developer teams," said Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO at...
View ArticleIs IBM Trying To Patent Up The Cloud Market?
What this could mean is that IBM is gearing up for a cloud patent wars. Such patents could be defensive, just in case the likes of Oracle tries to take down IBM, but it could be hard to sit on patents...
View ArticleDell Offering An Enhanced Chromebook, Courts Enterprise User
Dell has beefed up the Google Chromebook for the business market. The new Dell Chromebook 13 laptop has a 13.3-inch (33.7 centimeter) screen and resembles the other business-class Latitude Dell...
View ArticleSamsung Said To Be Announcing Galaxy S7 In January
Samsung is said to be unveiling in January its next Galaxy S7 smartphone, which would come in two processor versions: Premium and Sub-Premium. According to the Electronic Times News, the Premium...
View ArticleCyber Attacks On Industrial Controls Systems Rising
A U.S. government cyber security official warned that there has been an increase in attacks that penetrate industrial control system networks over the past year, and said they are vulnerable because...
View ArticleSeagate To Launch Fast NVMe SSD
Adoption will depend on how much OEM’s follow the [OCP] specifications from Facebook.”
View ArticleSeagate First To The Gate With USB-C Powered 8TB Drive
It measures 208mm long by 123.6mm wide by 36mm tall (8.19 x 4.87 x 1.42 inches) and weighs 1.5kg (3.31 pounds).
View ArticleVideoconferencing Vetern Polycom To Be Acquired By Mitel
Mitel’s planned purchasing of phone and videoconferencing veteran Polycom for nearly $2 billion comes as the enterprise communications industry faces dramatic changes brought by mobility and...
View ArticleIs Seagate Falling On Hard Times?
It is not the only harddrive maker which is suffering. Fellow disk-drive maker Western Digital which bought SanDisk in May, reported a revenue decline of 21%, to $2.82 billion, for its April 1 quarter.
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